Journal
SPATIAL COGNITION AND COMPUTATION
Volume 19, Issue 2, Pages 93-129Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/13875868.2018.1531869
Keywords
Cognitive map; judgments of relative direction (JRD); map-drawing task; map sketching; group-level nonparametric permutation test
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- NSF Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences [BCS-1630296]
- NIH National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke [R01NS076856]
- Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Individual National Research Service Award from the National Institute of Mental Health [F32MH116577]
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We present a detailed analysis of a widely used assay in human spatial cognition, the judgments of relative direction (JRD) task. We conducted three experiments involving virtual navigation interspersed with the JRD task, and included confidence judgments and map drawing as additional metrics. We also present a technique for assessing the similarity of the cognitive representations underlying performance on the JRD and map-drawing tasks. Our results support the construct validity of the JRD task and its connection to allocentric representation. Additionally, we found that chance performance on the JRD task depends on the distribution of the angles of participants' responses, rather than being constant and 90 degrees. Accordingly, we present a method for better determining chance performance.
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